Close and Endgame

Close

Close noun - The last part of a process or action.
Usage example: managed to conduct the negotiations to a satisfactory close

Endgame and close are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Endgame" instead a noun "Close".

Nearby Words: closed, closeness, closing, closely, closure

Endgame

Endgame noun - The last part of a process or action.
Usage example: they're now in the endgame of the negotiations for a new labor contract

Close and endgame are semantically related. You can use "Close" instead a noun "Endgame".

Both words in one sentence

  • One True Threesome Ran Mouri and Shinichi Kudo are pretty much endgame, but Shinichi has a rather close friendship with Heiji Hattori, whose own Patient Childhood Love Interest Kazuha Touyama is a close friend of Ran.
  • Film / Prison The Dog Bites Back: Rhino's cellmate, whom he has been forcing to be his... close partner, gets back at him when he leaves him for dead behind a locked door during the ghost's endgame rampage.
    Source: Film / Prison
  • Videogame / Master of the Wind Then they kidnap Gabriella in the endgame, plotting to sacrifice her to Arcadius and coming dangerously close to succeeding.
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